README file for the NACO SV Bulge Programme Contact Person Name: Andrea Stolte Contact Person E-mail Address: stolte@mpia-hd.mpg.de Contact Person Telephone Number: +49-6221-528351 Estimated Total Execution Time (EXCLUDING overheads): 3 hours Programme Description ===================== This is an imaging program to obtain moderately deep, high resolution JHK photometry of two compact, young star clusters in massive HII regions to obtain mass functions of the stellar population from the low to the high-mass end. Due to the high intrinsic extinction natural to young star forming environments, in several cases the use of the IR WFS would be a much better choice than the VIS WFS. All fields do, however, contain stars visually bright enough as guide stars for the VIS WFS. OB Information ============== The OBs for each anticipated field contain one JHK set of short exposures to obtain the bright end of the stellar population and one set of long exposures to yield photometry down to substellar objects. Our priority is on IRAS 17059, but as extinction is large in this area, use of the IR WFS would be good, if possible. In all our fields, the choice of guide star and wavefront sensor is not critical - please use the best guide star accessible on the field for correction. Configuration files: In fields where only relatively faint visual stars could be found in GSC II, we have included the bright IR sources as GS for the IR WFS, but as a back up have also given the VIS configuration with the same source. Thus, the source appears twice in .aocfg, once with excellent (IR WFS) and once with moderate (VIS WFS) correction. List of Science OBs with Associated Finding Charts -------------------------------------------------- Total Number of Submitted Science OBs: 9 Total Number of Submitted Finding Charts: 3 iras17059fc.ps w22.eps w22field.eps IRAS_17059_F1.obx IRAS_17059_F2.obx IRAS_17059_F3.obx IRAS_17059_F4.obx W_22_comp_F1.obx W_22_comp_F2.obx W_22_comp_F3.obx W_22_comp_F4.obx W_22_comp_F5.obx